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Hans Essel - Saitensack LP
First-ever release for Darmstadt-based composer and musician of improvised music Hans Essel (born 1948), who has been active in improvised music and Grundlagenmusik (foundational music) for more than 20 years. This LP showcases his project Saitensack (string-bag) in which he develops new ways of playing the violin and viola. Comparisons could be drawn to other experimental violinists like Tony Conrad and Takehisa Kosugi but Hans Essel uses a far more stripped-down approach: The instruments are neither modified nor amplified. Strings are not pressed by fingers but rather damped. Only through bowing, they are excited to complex free vibrations, sometimes harsh and noisy, at other times reminiscent of uilleann pipes with cracking and breaking like in yodeling. Saitensack focuses on the origin of tones out of the noise, zooming into the very character of string instruments. Saitensack is pure violin. The essence of violin playing. Side A features an overtone-rich performance from 1994. Side B has a harsher 1999 recording: 24 minutes of pure violin noise bliss. Edition of 500 with printed inner sleeve featuring a Saitensack discussion transcript. cover image and mp3 excerpts available here: http://www.edition-telemark.de/
Dominik Steiger - Dominik Steiger als Kind DVD
A Film by Oswald Wiener, Vienna 1965. Austrian artist Domink Steiger (born 1940) as 'a child'. Dressed up in a sailor suit, playing with himself and toys on a roof-top and out in the streets and at a playground with other children under the suspicious eyes of mid 1960's Vienna inhabitants. This work could be seen as some sort of an (unintended) Steiger-esque version of the "Wiener Spaziergang" action by Günter Brus which coincidently happened the same year in the same city. But this film is not just a documentation of a happening but an experimental film by Oswald Wiener (b.1935), one of the founding members of the 'Wiener Gruppe'. Filmed with a Super 8 camera and edited by hand, with fast cut's and short bursts of over-exposure. Edition of 100 numbered copies.
Roman Signer - Kanalgeräusche LP
First ever sound-edition by famous Swiss sculptor and conceptual artist Roman Signer (b.1938). Recorded 1982 in the River Steinach, St. Gallen, Switzerland. One-sided LP, transparent VInyl. Edition of 300 numbered copies.
Available Back-Catalogue:
Arf Arf DVD
Michael Barthel - Stapel. Efeu-Fährten CD
Dominik Steiger - Ad Hoc Musi 1980-84 LP
Franz Mon - Stimmen Lauter Stimmen LP
Zeitkratzer - Grand Orchestra CD
Wolf Vostell - Dé-Coll/Age Musik CD
Gerhard Rühm - Verlautbarungen CD
Jean Dubuffet - Experiences Musicales 2CD-Box (last copies)
Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - Meditation on a Broomstick CD
Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - Asshole / Snail Dilemma LP
Marcellvs L. - Klavierwellen LP
Mattin & Junko LP (last copies)
G'Park - Reuters LP (last copies)
Henri Chopin - La Plaine des Respirs CD (last copies)
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